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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

G. K. Chesterton

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Happiness Marriage Struggle
O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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Division Earth Ourselves People Pride
When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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Atheist Believe Choice God Man Mindset
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Faith Forgiveness Hope Love Sorry
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Deep Mistake Truth Understand
God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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Deep God Religious Sun Yourself
Passion makes every detail important.
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Detail Important Passion
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Difference Disguise Ignorance Name Partial
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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Instruction Need Reminder
Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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Avoid Goodness Requirement Virtue Wife Woman Yourself
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Hope Inspirational Magic Miracle
Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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Enough Place Removal Yourself
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Complex Issues Moral Principle Terrible
The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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Education Man School Time

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